There's that whole 'I'm an impatient bastard', though, when it comes to wanting to meet people.
Hm. May have to make a post about why I vastly prefer seeing people face-to-face, or at least communicating real-time, to email. (a mode of communication that, despite the fact that I've been using it for years, I'm loathe to discuss emotional concepts in.)
I'll write by hand.. It's one of my preferred methods of writing, actually.
But handwritten /letters/, or even journal entries... There's a connection to the *person* there that electrons just don't have. Pardon me while I wax all mystical.
I've had some online friends for years, that I finally met when I had a sweetie out in Boston. There's still a few people out there that I consider 'friends' who I've never met. But, then, I probably never WILL meet them.
Exactly.. It's like written body language. My handwriting will change, from the top of the page to the bottom... and not just because of writer's cramp. *g*
Of course, I met boojum through pyrogenic, who she was dating at the time. I met oJsh at camp, fell in love, he was dating her, I made friends with her, the rest is a very thick binderful of printed-out emails because they were overflowing the account. Not to mention the letters, and the phone bills, and so forth.
I have written journals dating back to the beginning of the Gulf War. Possibly sooner, given that my 5th grade teacher made us keep journals, but that was my first journal for me ... and, of course, any children I managed to have in the time intervening between Right Then and Later On.
I think I can spare the world most of my prose, 10-13.
Okay, how about sometime when I'm not at work? *grin*
I'll try and write about it when I have time. Basically, forging semi-permanent link with other people in other worlds. Rather a lot like what happens when I write, only...not.
I don't have many old writings from then. Few have managed to survive; and by that I mean "survive the intitial timecut of my writing."
Of course, that's primarily because the vast majority of my writing energies since ~=October 1994 have been taken up by The Infinite Novel (ectogenesis, the story of the former Mary Sue rosalynde). Changed plot at least three times. Boy.
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Sometimes, geek fun is the SECOND-best kind. ;)
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...Hmm... ;)
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(Monty Python moment: nudgenudge wink-wink knowwhaddImean? Enough said...)
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Hm. May have to make a post about why I vastly prefer seeing people face-to-face, or at least communicating real-time, to email. (a mode of communication that, despite the fact that I've been using it for years, I'm loathe to discuss emotional concepts in.)
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Given the spare time, I can and will produce odd and strange amounts of handwritten material.
On the other hand, only some of it gets sent.
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But handwritten /letters/, or even journal entries... There's a connection to the *person* there that electrons just don't have. Pardon me while I wax all mystical.
Practically speaking
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This is especially obvious in my journals.
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I think I can spare the world most of my prose, 10-13.
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...It wasn't formerly only me, up here under my blue hair..
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*reads pyrogenic's journal*
No posts in quite a while... is everything okay?
lost soul?
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Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Should ask me about worldwalking sometime.
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(Sometime == now) true;
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I'll try and write about it when I have time. Basically, forging semi-permanent link with other people in other worlds. Rather a lot like what happens when I write, only...not.
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Of course, that's primarily because the vast majority of my writing energies since ~=October 1994 have been taken up by The Infinite Novel (
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Some damn big blanks, there...
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